We are all paying the taxes necessary for you to have a road to your home. So get over it. If it was a private road, that you alone bared the burden of paying for, then Waze wouldn't use it.
It isn't a highway however. Sending a lot of trffic down a relatively narrow street with cars parked on both sides, is an invitation to trouble. Especially so when a lot of impatient people are using it to circumvent the highways.
Once it backs up from the other direction, and they can't back up either, it will create a lovely snarl that people will learn to avoid.
Apparently your suggestion to this "foreign" traffic causing congestion in your sainted neighborhoods is to create congestion in your neighborhoods.
Much safer congestion by the way. The problem with sending traffic in a hurry to avoid traffic congestion on the main highways onto local streets, is that the local streets are simply not designed for the traffic. A residential street has vehicles parked on both sides, and is almost always 25 miles per hour or even less. Not many peopple who are trying to avoid traffic eve drive that speed. It isn't safe for children playing in their yards - hey, a child chasing a ball onto the road should not be punisible by death.
We have had a little bit of trouble, not much. we just contact the local police, and people like yourself get hammered. You might consider some folks driving slowly at rush hours, and impeding your trip home to be the least of the problems you will have. We'll even know about you before you get here. We have the app as well.
You want to drive in my neighborhood, you are most welcome, it's a beautiful place. . But not as a pack of people speeding to get someplace else in hurry, on a road never designed for that traffic level.
Excuse me? GP's software setup does revolve around him. Neither you nor I are qualified to tell him what he should do about it.
I'm not telling him what to do about it - you must have me confused with someone else. I did tell him that if he had to use a Windows only program (I wrote monoculture because the same holds true for OSX and Linux - he was beholden to that OS, and had to jump through any hoops they demand. Their bitch, as it were.
You deny that?
You want him to move off Windows to put pressure on Microsoft.
Once again, not me. I have all three platforms in use. I do not like the Windows ecosystem, so my Windows machines - one W10 Dell, and an iMax running W7 do not have anything other than the very few programs I need, and nothing personal. They get booted when I need them, then shut down when I'm done.
And if you want to talk about being somoene's bitch, some of the programs I have to use for Linux require PulseAudio, so I have no choice about systemd - I don't find it problem, but some do.
He wants to get work done without additional hassle and expense.
Okay - all decisions a person has to make to decide if they are going to accept Windows and it's issues.
The best you can offer him is that, if he goes to a lot of additional work and expense, he might be able to put some small influence on MS that might pay off someday. You don't even seem to have a plan other than "move off MS Windows and see what happens".
Once again, you seem to be confusing me with someone else.
Make no mistake, I find Windows 10 to be a decent OS, but it's telemetry and other invasive features have me determine that is a steaming pile of shit.
So for the couple programs that I have to have, but are only on Windows I do have the capability, but Microsoft's telemetry doesn't get much from my setup. The insane thing around this place is that being fluent in three operating systems, and using them on a daily basis is considered a bad thing. As I said before, if you want Microsoft only, you will take what they give you.
The way it was explained to me is to reduce friction on skin. Having the padding fixed to the seat means the pant/skin rubs against the seat with every pedal stroke. Moving the padding to the skin allows the friction to move from the skin/pant boundary to the internal cushion/pant boundary. Apparently it makes a big difference to serious riders.
Well if you like your Amiga so much, why don't you marry it? Then you can fuck it and have little Atari babies or some shit. You're old and should feel old for being old.
Or you could be like me, and buy the computers you need. I play games, and if I need a Microsoft platform I use that. I won't put anything else on it though.
"Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges against Goldenshores Technologies, LLC, and its owner, Erik Geidl.
Too bad it didn't include some time in a Max security prison.
American medicine is highly slanted towards "heroic" medicine, i.e. giving people at the end of their lives another month or two, often spent in hospital. Both in what we pay doctors for, and in the kind of prestige we give to various specialties. Obviously this is the lowest bang for the buck, even without including quality of life into the math.
As an example of that, my mother in law racked up at least 675,000 dollars in medical treatment in the last year of her life. It was actually more, but 675,000 is what I can verify. All of th eother costs put together probably made it a million.
All this for a woman who was uffering form dementia, was either in a wheelchair or bedridden. Whne she had a lucid moment - about once a month, she expressed the desire to die. Other times she was an unhappy crying dementia patient.
If you break those "life expectancy by country" tables down by age bracket, you see that our worst performance is with newborns and infants, and as people get older our relative performance improves, until if you make it to over 65 we do provide longest life expectancy from that point on.
The insurance system is pretty well rigged that way. Interestingly enough, despite the average age of death has risen, the endpoints have not. Which reminds me, I saw a commercial aimed at millenials talking about a retirement plan and how they'll live to 140. Not in the cards, young'uns.
Which perfectly explains how we end up spending the most per capita and providing the lowest life expectancy over all.
And I laugh every time a politician claims that we have the best healthcare system in the world.....
Altogether too many users seem to think that there is a one size only wrench and one size only is what it shall forever be.
I use the best tool for the job. Sometimes that is OS X, and software I cannot get on any other platform. Sometime it is Linux, when it's either no other platform for the software, or I need better security than Windows. And if there is no other option - then Windows.
But as I said, it appears that most computer users act like the locals down at corner gas, and argue like it's Ford versus Chevy.
Are you saying that all Windows software is markedly superirm, and in no case can be performed by another platform? That software that is not on Windows is inferior? Because that's what so many here seem to believe.
Whoa, dude, you found a Wacom device that doesn't have Linux support?
You think dude has ever used Linux?
Speaking of driver support, I was outfitting some computers for a radio application. The laptops needed a serial to USB dongle attached. They were also dual boot to demo Linux versions of the programs we were using.
We used the Staples brand, because it has lights to indicate serial activity.
One laptop was being a nuisance. It set up great on Linux, but not on the Windows side. Finally I took a close look at the adapter. It looked exactly the same, kind of a long smoed transparent case. But the model number was different.
So I looked it up. There were no Windows drivers for it any more, nor were any going to be offered.
Turns out it was an adapter from an old Palm Plot type device. It looked like the new ones physically, so someone threw it in the box with the new dongles.
The experience taught me to laugh when people bloviate about lack of driver support. I haven't had that issue with Linux in the last ten years. I have had that problem in droves with Windows Vista, from the same era.
Yeah yeah, just reinstall, fixes everything. Until the next distro switches to systemd, then reinstall again.
It used to be that reinstalling was the solution for Windows problems.
Yeah yeah, I've never had to reinstall any Linux system for any problems related to systemd. Sometimes I've installed a different distro for experimentation.
Hell, I even have applications that I have to use that depend on the poster child for all that is wrong with systemd - PulseAudio. Despite early issues that are long cured, I'm not having issues with either PA or systemd now.
Recently I've taken to working with Ubuntu Mate. Good interface, and so far works great. (also have UMate on an R-pi, so a little consistency is nice) I have a few programs like Outpost and Soundmodem that appear to work better in Linux than in Windows - I have them on both OS's.
I also complain every day about being stuck in traffic and about the cost of petrol. But there's few other ways to get to work so I take my complaining arse to the petrol station, part with another 80EUR and then potter along the highway at 20km/h.
Not because I like the self inflicted pain, but because it's one of the few choices available.
I'm not even sure I know what this mythical "Year of the Linux Desktop" is even meant to be so I'm probably not the best person to ask about it.
It's what the fanbois chant whenever someone says something positive about Linux, an ancient meme that should immediately be followed by a retort about how Windows 1 sucks.
Where exactly it came from is buried in history,(maybe) but it's pretty pointless, as no Linux user I know has a remote interest in just how "popular" it is.
Popularity is for People Magazine, Kim Kardashian rappers, and Windows fanboys. I got work to do.
Oh, so cost is what is really holding the Year of the Linux Desktop?
ANd my ford will trounce your Chevy, p>
And Captain Picard can kick Captain Kirk's ass from here to friggen vulcan and back.
You do realize that almost no one gives a damn about "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" don't you?
Just you and a few people who don't even know where the meme came from.
It doesn't solve the problem of Microsoft abusing customers who (rightly) feel that have no other choice without either becoming a computer expert, or spending an arm and a leg for a Mac..
Then the decision is made. They will put up with whatever shit Microsoft wants them to eat. World witout end, Amen.
First off at least for me, I could give a damn about which computer is most popular. I tend toward using a computer for the tools it gives me. I do a lot of work on OSX that uses Mac Specific applications. Price? Doesn't matter, but if the price difference you claim is the proverbial arm and leg, difference, that difference isn't so much numerically that they might consider sticking with their old computers if it's a problem. But I digress.
I use Linux for more security. I have one application that I need a Windows machine, otherwise I "use" Windows only to learn how to troubleshoot Windows machines.
But the programs that I need to interface between the OS's are provided by Open source, like the Office Suite. Micorsoft Office isn't compatible between Mac and PC, so it's a non starter. They are tools, and the concept of one being too expensive (which it isn't anyway) is like deciding that you will only use slip joint pliers instead of sockets because slip-joints are cheaper.
Let me know when Linux has support for the Wacom Cintiq Companion 2, all of the 3d modeling software I regularly use, and comes with free money to buy the Linux versions of the software.
The fucking world revolves around you apparently. If you are using a monoculture program have at it. And if Microsoft demands you will do exactly what they say. You are their bitch.
Surely systemd will soon have that missing functionality, then all will be well again.
blah, blah, blah. If you hate systemd, then who the hell is forcing you to use it on Linux? There are distros without it. More fun to be a troll though, eh?
I remember when the Windows guys used to stick their noses in the air, and Claim that the Amiga was just a gaming machine, not suited for serious work.
How the tables have turned, the only reason to keep a windows machine is rapidly becoming as a game machine.
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We are all paying the taxes necessary for you to have a road to your home. So get over it. If it was a private road, that you alone bared the burden of paying for, then Waze wouldn't use it.
It isn't a highway however. Sending a lot of trffic down a relatively narrow street with cars parked on both sides, is an invitation to trouble. Especially so when a lot of impatient people are using it to circumvent the highways.
Once it backs up from the other direction, and they can't back up either, it will create a lovely snarl that people will learn to avoid.
Apparently your suggestion to this "foreign" traffic causing congestion in your sainted neighborhoods is to create congestion in your neighborhoods.
Much safer congestion by the way. The problem with sending traffic in a hurry to avoid traffic congestion on the main highways onto local streets, is that the local streets are simply not designed for the traffic. A residential street has vehicles parked on both sides, and is almost always 25 miles per hour or even less. Not many peopple who are trying to avoid traffic eve drive that speed. It isn't safe for children playing in their yards - hey, a child chasing a ball onto the road should not be punisible by death.
We have had a little bit of trouble, not much. we just contact the local police, and people like yourself get hammered. You might consider some folks driving slowly at rush hours, and impeding your trip home to be the least of the problems you will have. We'll even know about you before you get here. We have the app as well.
You want to drive in my neighborhood, you are most welcome, it's a beautiful place. . But not as a pack of people speeding to get someplace else in hurry, on a road never designed for that traffic level.
Excuse me? GP's software setup does revolve around him. Neither you nor I are qualified to tell him what he should do about it.
I'm not telling him what to do about it - you must have me confused with someone else. I did tell him that if he had to use a Windows only program (I wrote monoculture because the same holds true for OSX and Linux - he was beholden to that OS, and had to jump through any hoops they demand. Their bitch, as it were.
You deny that?
You want him to move off Windows to put pressure on Microsoft.
Once again, not me. I have all three platforms in use. I do not like the Windows ecosystem, so my Windows machines - one W10 Dell, and an iMax running W7 do not have anything other than the very few programs I need, and nothing personal. They get booted when I need them, then shut down when I'm done.
And if you want to talk about being somoene's bitch, some of the programs I have to use for Linux require PulseAudio, so I have no choice about systemd - I don't find it problem, but some do.
He wants to get work done without additional hassle and expense.
Okay - all decisions a person has to make to decide if they are going to accept Windows and it's issues.
The best you can offer him is that, if he goes to a lot of additional work and expense, he might be able to put some small influence on MS that might pay off someday. You don't even seem to have a plan other than "move off MS Windows and see what happens".
Once again, you seem to be confusing me with someone else.
Make no mistake, I find Windows 10 to be a decent OS, but it's telemetry and other invasive features have me determine that is a steaming pile of shit.
So for the couple programs that I have to have, but are only on Windows I do have the capability, but Microsoft's telemetry doesn't get much from my setup. The insane thing around this place is that being fluent in three operating systems, and using them on a daily basis is considered a bad thing. As I said before, if you want Microsoft only, you will take what they give you.
I mean it couldn't possible be because you're wrong...
Not for that reason I can't.
The way it was explained to me is to reduce friction on skin. Having the padding fixed to the seat means the pant/skin rubs against the seat with every pedal stroke. Moving the padding to the skin allows the friction to move from the skin/pant boundary to the internal cushion/pant boundary. Apparently it makes a big difference to serious riders.
Thanks much!
Well if you like your Amiga so much, why don't you marry it? Then you can fuck it and have little Atari babies or some shit. You're old and should feel old for being old.
You mad, bro?
Fuck you, ya old bastard!
You'd never go back to sheep.
Or you could be like me, and buy the computers you need. I play games, and if I need a Microsoft platform I use that. I won't put anything else on it though.
"Following a public comment period, the Federal Trade Commission has approved a final order settling charges against Goldenshores Technologies, LLC, and its owner, Erik Geidl.
Too bad it didn't include some time in a Max security prison.
American medicine is highly slanted towards "heroic" medicine, i.e. giving people at the end of their lives another month or two, often spent in hospital. Both in what we pay doctors for, and in the kind of prestige we give to various specialties. Obviously this is the lowest bang for the buck, even without including quality of life into the math.
As an example of that, my mother in law racked up at least 675,000 dollars in medical treatment in the last year of her life. It was actually more, but 675,000 is what I can verify. All of th eother costs put together probably made it a million.
All this for a woman who was uffering form dementia, was either in a wheelchair or bedridden. Whne she had a lucid moment - about once a month, she expressed the desire to die. Other times she was an unhappy crying dementia patient.
If you break those "life expectancy by country" tables down by age bracket, you see that our worst performance is with newborns and infants, and as people get older our relative performance improves, until if you make it to over 65 we do provide longest life expectancy from that point on.
The insurance system is pretty well rigged that way. Interestingly enough, despite the average age of death has risen, the endpoints have not. Which reminds me, I saw a commercial aimed at millenials talking about a retirement plan and how they'll live to 140. Not in the cards, young'uns.
Which perfectly explains how we end up spending the most per capita and providing the lowest life expectancy over all.
And I laugh every time a politician claims that we have the best healthcare system in the world.....
The thing is, the parent has a fair point.
Altogether too many users seem to think that there is a one size only wrench and one size only is what it shall forever be.
I use the best tool for the job. Sometimes that is OS X, and software I cannot get on any other platform. Sometime it is Linux, when it's either no other platform for the software, or I need better security than Windows. And if there is no other option - then Windows.
But as I said, it appears that most computer users act like the locals down at corner gas, and argue like it's Ford versus Chevy.
Are you saying that all Windows software is markedly superirm, and in no case can be performed by another platform? That software that is not on Windows is inferior? Because that's what so many here seem to believe.
That outlook by the away - is wrong.
Better make that other system something other than Linux because otherwise you are just going to be Linus's bitch.
F8unny, but Linux never went full surveillance on me, so says wireshark.
Whoa, dude, you found a Wacom device that doesn't have Linux support?
You think dude has ever used Linux?
Speaking of driver support, I was outfitting some computers for a radio application. The laptops needed a serial to USB dongle attached. They were also dual boot to demo Linux versions of the programs we were using.
We used the Staples brand, because it has lights to indicate serial activity.
One laptop was being a nuisance. It set up great on Linux, but not on the Windows side. Finally I took a close look at the adapter. It looked exactly the same, kind of a long smoed transparent case. But the model number was different.
So I looked it up. There were no Windows drivers for it any more, nor were any going to be offered.
Turns out it was an adapter from an old Palm Plot type device. It looked like the new ones physically, so someone threw it in the box with the new dongles.
The experience taught me to laugh when people bloviate about lack of driver support. I haven't had that issue with Linux in the last ten years. I have had that problem in droves with Windows Vista, from the same era.
Yeah yeah, just reinstall, fixes everything. Until the next distro switches to systemd, then reinstall again.
It used to be that reinstalling was the solution for Windows problems.
Yeah yeah, I've never had to reinstall any Linux system for any problems related to systemd. Sometimes I've installed a different distro for experimentation.
Hell, I even have applications that I have to use that depend on the poster child for all that is wrong with systemd - PulseAudio. Despite early issues that are long cured, I'm not having issues with either PA or systemd now.
Recently I've taken to working with Ubuntu Mate. Good interface, and so far works great. (also have UMate on an R-pi, so a little consistency is nice) I have a few programs like Outpost and Soundmodem that appear to work better in Linux than in Windows - I have them on both OS's.
All major distros have adopted/had it forced upon them.
So don't use a major distro. Go to Distrowatch and find one you like out of the hundreds there. Or roll your own, and be master of your domain.
If it gets really bad, use Windows 10...................
The only people who care are fuckwits like you who can't seem to grasp that you already lost a long time ago. Just suicide already.
Tumblr called - they want you back.
I also complain every day about being stuck in traffic and about the cost of petrol. But there's few other ways to get to work so I take my complaining arse to the petrol station, part with another 80EUR and then potter along the highway at 20km/h.
Not because I like the self inflicted pain, but because it's one of the few choices available.
Too bad there is zero other choice.
I'm not even sure I know what this mythical "Year of the Linux Desktop" is even meant to be so I'm probably not the best person to ask about it.
It's what the fanbois chant whenever someone says something positive about Linux, an ancient meme that should immediately be followed by a retort about how Windows 1 sucks.
Where exactly it came from is buried in history,(maybe) but it's pretty pointless, as no Linux user I know has a remote interest in just how "popular" it is.
Popularity is for People Magazine, Kim Kardashian rappers, and Windows fanboys. I got work to do.
Oh, so cost is what is really holding the Year of the Linux Desktop?
ANd my ford will trounce your Chevy, p> And Captain Picard can kick Captain Kirk's ass from here to friggen vulcan and back.
You do realize that almost no one gives a damn about "The Year of Linux on the Desktop" don't you? Just you and a few people who don't even know where the meme came from.
It doesn't solve the problem of Microsoft abusing customers who (rightly) feel that have no other choice without either becoming a computer expert, or spending an arm and a leg for a Mac..
Then the decision is made. They will put up with whatever shit Microsoft wants them to eat. World witout end, Amen.
First off at least for me, I could give a damn about which computer is most popular. I tend toward using a computer for the tools it gives me. I do a lot of work on OSX that uses Mac Specific applications. Price? Doesn't matter, but if the price difference you claim is the proverbial arm and leg, difference, that difference isn't so much numerically that they might consider sticking with their old computers if it's a problem. But I digress.
I use Linux for more security. I have one application that I need a Windows machine, otherwise I "use" Windows only to learn how to troubleshoot Windows machines.
But the programs that I need to interface between the OS's are provided by Open source, like the Office Suite. Micorsoft Office isn't compatible between Mac and PC, so it's a non starter. They are tools, and the concept of one being too expensive (which it isn't anyway) is like deciding that you will only use slip joint pliers instead of sockets because slip-joints are cheaper.
Let me know when Linux has support for the Wacom Cintiq Companion 2, all of the 3d modeling software I regularly use, and comes with free money to buy the Linux versions of the software.
The fucking world revolves around you apparently. If you are using a monoculture program have at it. And if Microsoft demands you will do exactly what they say. You are their bitch.
And then find that 90% of your programs aren't available.
Name them.
Pray tell, how exactly am I supposed to run all the software I need on a daily basis to, you know, actually make money and shit?
I made a significant amount of money using OSX - what's your point?
I'll leave the shit part to you since you use Windows. That fits perfectly.
I think we may have different customers. I have several that have partially switched.
I have many that have. Windows 8 started the exodus.
Linux haters are a little like Electric car deniers. Spouting problems from 1995 as if they are happening today, while the inevitable is happening.
And if we are going to spout ancient issues, I want to talk about the piece of crap that is Windows 1.
Surely systemd will soon have that missing functionality, then all will be well again.
blah, blah, blah. If you hate systemd, then who the hell is forcing you to use it on Linux? There are distros without it. More fun to be a troll though, eh?
Do you even Linux?
Sorry. 'nix still isn't a gaming OS.
I remember when the Windows guys used to stick their noses in the air, and Claim that the Amiga was just a gaming machine, not suited for serious work.
How the tables have turned, the only reason to keep a windows machine is rapidly becoming as a game machine.